** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools
  
  When generating a new initramfs there is no check for available free
  space, subsequently its possible for update-initramfs to fail due to a
  lack of free space.  This is resulting in package installation failures
  for initramfs-tools.  For example:
  
  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.8ubuntu3) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
  
  gzip: stdout: No space left on device
  E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
  dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  
  WORKAROUND:
  
- Remove unused kernels using computer janitor or manually free space on
- your partition containing the /boot file system.
+ Remove unused kernels using computer janitor (not in repositories for
+ 14.04 or later) or manually free space on your partition containing the
+ /boot file system.

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Title:
  update-initramfs should produce a more helpful error when there isn't
  enough  free space

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